dear soumitri
Part of the corporation game is understanding you. And I find that hard to do. Not so much recently, since we have been developing the games – but before, when we were letting ourselves go, and learning to think like we hadn’t before. To tell the truth, I don’t feel like I have the full grasp of thinking freely. But I am getting there.
Part of the corporation game is motivating yourself. I have needed to start my own projects, to analyse them, and to complete them (with room for improvement) by myself. I have kept up my blog – adding items of interest, improving my cultural capital, and recording my (admittedly, mostly uncompleted) projects.
Part of the corporation game is separating the game from my life. I search for ouspensky when I get home from school, sit in evan and contemplate what he could be when I should be heading to bed; and blog in the mornings, when I should be waking up slowly. It’s unfair to say that ‘hey I’m in a play next week, and a major part in a musical, and designing the set for it’, and all this contributes to the corporation game – because I would be doing these things anyway. But they do make me tired – and that’s my choice. We all have our external lives and its cheating to say they are the result of something we’ve only been doing for 7 weeks.Liam said ‘When did students stop getting drunk and vomiting down the fronts of their suits from saver's?’ we didn’t stop liam – I have endeavored to do it more.[see tonight]
Part of the corporation game is learning that not everything is part of the corporation game.
Part of the corporation game is letting go. I have a folio from high-school, and one from college, and even a small one from a year at UC. These are all products of my work, but now I’m doing a subject (worth 24 points…) which privileges the process. So what I get out of the process, is what I get out of the subject. By relatively ignoring the outcomes of our process (i.e. the lamps, the blogs) how can we feel positive about it?
Part of the corporation game is learning to dissent, and admitting when you don’t understand. There should always be dissenters, and dissenter’s dissenters. And in the corporation game – there is nothing you can do outside of class if you don’t understand. There is no book of Soumitri’s head, most of the papers he has written are on sustainablility/ecodesign or available at www.tbc. That’s not a website – I checked.
Part of the corporation game is learner centred education, which is in essence, making your own aims. This is hard to do – as keeping up with a D grade would not be hard – if I had chosen another studio. Work is work is work, but thinking is not just thinking. You can work, and say you’re done, but it is rare to think and say you are done. I think…
I’m not a slacker – I put my hand up.
But I will look into doing twice as much work for you as I do for the other patricians.
And I will make this fucking board. But maybe not until next week.
Part of the corporation game is motivating yourself. I have needed to start my own projects, to analyse them, and to complete them (with room for improvement) by myself. I have kept up my blog – adding items of interest, improving my cultural capital, and recording my (admittedly, mostly uncompleted) projects.
Part of the corporation game is separating the game from my life. I search for ouspensky when I get home from school, sit in evan and contemplate what he could be when I should be heading to bed; and blog in the mornings, when I should be waking up slowly. It’s unfair to say that ‘hey I’m in a play next week, and a major part in a musical, and designing the set for it’, and all this contributes to the corporation game – because I would be doing these things anyway. But they do make me tired – and that’s my choice. We all have our external lives and its cheating to say they are the result of something we’ve only been doing for 7 weeks.Liam said ‘When did students stop getting drunk and vomiting down the fronts of their suits from saver's?’ we didn’t stop liam – I have endeavored to do it more.[see tonight]
Part of the corporation game is learning that not everything is part of the corporation game.
Part of the corporation game is letting go. I have a folio from high-school, and one from college, and even a small one from a year at UC. These are all products of my work, but now I’m doing a subject (worth 24 points…) which privileges the process. So what I get out of the process, is what I get out of the subject. By relatively ignoring the outcomes of our process (i.e. the lamps, the blogs) how can we feel positive about it?
Part of the corporation game is learning to dissent, and admitting when you don’t understand. There should always be dissenters, and dissenter’s dissenters. And in the corporation game – there is nothing you can do outside of class if you don’t understand. There is no book of Soumitri’s head, most of the papers he has written are on sustainablility/ecodesign or available at www.tbc. That’s not a website – I checked.
Part of the corporation game is learner centred education, which is in essence, making your own aims. This is hard to do – as keeping up with a D grade would not be hard – if I had chosen another studio. Work is work is work, but thinking is not just thinking. You can work, and say you’re done, but it is rare to think and say you are done. I think…
I’m not a slacker – I put my hand up.
But I will look into doing twice as much work for you as I do for the other patricians.
And I will make this fucking board. But maybe not until next week.
posted by ben at 5:07 PM
3 Comments:
oh - and i will try and pronounce your name properly.
Nice Post. It expands upon a lot of things. Like process over results.
But the Corporation Game itself? Corporations privilege thinking above all else. Good thinking. It is said that the Japanese corporations recruited their leaders from the ranks of the student unionists. And Liam had a similar story for the Koreans.
I am sorry my thinking is not available as publications. I will rectify that. I will come in to class with my non - eco writings.
I will also give you access to my bibliography. For I am not original at all. I am but a product of my times. I just picked up Hemmingway's crap detector.
I to feel that thinking is never quite finished but I can also feel the same about work. It took me two years working on my art folio to develop an idea that I had on pollution and trying to communicate it. I still fell that I could keep working on it, and I didn’t feel finished until my art teacher picked it up and said that this is a final piece and I should mount it. It’s still on display some where at my school and I never felt that it was finished, but my teacher said that it communicated the message fine. That’s a very lovely picture of you vomiting. I still can feel quite positive just ignoring the outcomes, I think is because I notice that there is improvement and that every thing can be better, improved more. As when I finished my first lamp, I had a cloud of uncertainty knowing that it’s not quite what I wanted, but some times if others can accept it you can to. I really don’t think any of this is making sense so I will stop now. I really like your honesty though it shows that you have passion, I am not sure if you have ever looked at my blog, its http://thenoneday.blogspot.com/
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